morrowindAutomattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far
sideloveReally, Matt? Nothing else, like how you went scorched-earth on WPEngine and caught a lot of people in the crossfire and destroyed a lot of goodwill in the process? Nothing comes to mind?
LumidaubWho’d’ve thunk that not only doing everything your userbase does not want but also actively bullying a large portion of that userbase into leaving wouldn’t create revenue? No, being quirky on main and self-deprecating every once in a while won’t change that.
Edit: this sounds like “bullying people into leaving” and “what the userbase does not want” are two different things. That’s not what I meant. I’m overthinking this. I strongly deny any accusation of ever having pissed on a poor.
katy ✨yeah well when you buy tumblr and ignore the userbase to push dumb changes what do you think would happen
Well like most CEO’s he gets paid no matter what so he doesn’t have to think. That’s the problem.
Imagine getting millions of dollars to ruin a company. The concept is insane to me.
paraphrandIt’s all gambling when playing with those numbers. And economists build stories that sometimes are just ways to justify it.
Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤi’d say give tumblr back to david karp but i’m literally afraid he’s like into crypto now like wil wright (don’t tell me cause i don’t wanna find out because i dont wanna get sad 🙃)
nagaramI checked for you and good news!
Tap for spoilerHe isn’t involved in much except investing in mobility aides and was apparently on the Planned Parenthood board for a while. Quick search showed his most recent activity was being the single largest donor to Mark Kelly’s 2020 senate campaign. Completely normal progressive liberal stuff.
Porn on tumblr was an early victim of credit card companies not wanting to be associated with that filthy filth, like what happened recently with videogames. Iirc, they pressured app stores to take the tumblr app down.
KoboldCoterieI can’t verify the truth of it, but I heard that the catalyst to the porn ban was a meeting where they were pitching Tumblr advertisements to some company, and wanted to demonstrate how tags and engagement works, so they pulled up the #McDonalds tag live to demonstrate and they got a screen full of Ronald McDonald porn.
tabularI don’t care if this is debunked in the next millisecond, this is my head canon from now till the end of time.
The_DecryptorIt was Apple. Or rather, regulators and partnering companies leaning on Apple to manage the content on their app store better, including the content that you could find via those apps.
Could say something about how the app stores are a monopoly power, and the chilling effect these wide ranging and heavy handed content policies have, and why the open web (and web apps) are a better option. But we also handed the web over to Google anyway, so it’s not that much better.
Tumblr to ban all pornographic content after Apple store delisting over child porn concerns
Social media networking site Tumblr announces that from December 17 all "adult content" will no longer be permitted on the site, a move that comes weeks after the app was delisted from the Apple App Store over concerns of child pornography.
as a long time tumblr user it’s so very ironic to me that short after the 2018 porn ban you see the rise of fan sites, and still after that tumblr tried to monetise by adding tips, and various ways to pay your favourite bloggers and just… you already had users willing to post hot original porn, and later you had ways to monetise it, but no, they did it in the wrong order wtf
To be fair, IF tumblr had added the tipping feature while porn was huge on the site, it might have became Onlyfans.
OF wasn’t always a porn site. It was trying to be a Patron that allowed adult content, but it became just a porn site.
I argue something similar would have happened to tumblr
“so far”
I’m guessing he’s stupid or greedy.
Throw in an ad and the service pays for itself.
That is, unless he’s renting hardware like a dipshit.
A bunch of companies have been trying for years to monetize tumblr. They’ve all failed. Tumblr users are very proud of this.
They do call it a Hellsite for many reasons. Not being profitable is one of them.
At the same time, it has calmed down a bit as the user base has aged up, and the more volatile elements have left for bluer skies.
Oddly enough, other than the mess of the NSFW filter, it’s been fairly controversy free. You can still use their API without paying globs of money, for example. Twitter and Facebook have all thrown that out, and Reddit has made other bad decisions, in addition to imploding their third party app ecosystem.
I thought Twitter was the hellsite. When did tumblr become it?
I left when all my friends and follows stopped posting and my feed was all bullshit.
Kissakithe biggest failure was removal of porn from tumbler, they all fled to twitter, and pornhub.
Something Burger 🍔Automattic bought Tumblr after the porn ban.
The ban happened because Verizon was trying to sell it.
SoftestSapphicAlso, there’s still porn on Tumblr. They stopped trying to block it, and now they just exclusicy ban trans women who post porn.
setVeryLoud(true);Source?
Oh yeah no I know there’s porn on tumblr, I need a source about tumblr banning porn made by trans people
How?
Are you expecting a news article or what?
Oh i did find news, ok
Thanks for the link!
Are you expecting a news article or what?
I mean, yeah, that’s how providing a source works. You provide me with a news article that contains sources, or the source itself.
I just didn’t expect any site to write about the bigot Tumblr mods that dispropotionally targeted trans girls for sexual posts that didn’t usualy show nudity or even much skin.
BjarneTumblr is shit which is why you can’t monetize it
abbiistabbiias a tumblr user, lol.
Hammer car explosion motherfucker